force, the results not being equal to the outlays involved. He can hardly fail to look with grave apprehension at the political influence upon the nation proceeding from the illiteracy of so many voters as the last census has revealed; and he can hardly fail to discover difficulties ahead from the religious question, unless it is early settled upon the principle of justice to all.

D. C. GILMAN,

THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. CXXII.

Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur.

BOSTON:

JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & Co.

1876.

COPYRIGHT, 1876.

Br JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co., CAMBRIDGE.

Native Races of the Pacific States. By HUBERT Howe

BANCROFT.

III. THE CONSULAR SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES

IV. CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE.

V. THE REFORM OF LOCAL TAXATION

1. Report to the Legislature of Massachusetts of the

Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Expediency

of revising and amending the Laws relating to Taxation

and exemption therefrom.

2. Report of the Treasurer and Auditor of Virginia to

the House of Delegates on the Subject of Taxation, to-

gether with the Draft of a Tax Bill.

3. Report of the Joint Special Committee on the sub-

ject of Property liable to and exempt from Taxation,

made to the General Assembly of the State of Rhode

Island.

4. Report of the State Assessors of the State of New

York. Transmitted to the Legislature, January, 1874.

5. Taxation; Address of George H. Andrews before

the Assembly Committee of Ways and Means of the

State of New York. Delivered October 6, 1874.

6. Exclusive Taxation of Real Estate, and the fran-

chises of a few specified Moneyed Corporations and Gas

Companies. By ISAAC SHERMAN.

7. Methods of Valuation of Real Estate for Taxation.

Read before the Social Science Association of Philadel-

phia, May, 1874. By THOMAS COCHRAN.

8. Taxes and Assessments in the City of New York;

Report of the Commissioners of Taxes, 1875.

309

337

357

9. The Law of Taxation. By FRANCIS HILLARD.

10. The Tax Question; What should be taxed, and

how it should be taxed. Suggestions for the People of

Tennessee to consider. By ENOCH ENSLEY.

11. Taxation of Visible Property. By WILLIAM ENDI-

COTT.

12. Unequal State Taxation. By GEORGE H. ANDREWS.

13. Unequal Taxation in Delaware. By ISAAC HINCK-

LEY.

14. Report of Tax Commissioners, specially appointed

under Resolve of the Legislature of the State of Maine.

15. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means of

the Assembly of the State of New York, 1874-5; Special

Investigation on the Subject of Taxation.

VI. CRITICAL NOTICES

Darwin's

Tyndall on Sound, 403. - James's Roderick Hudson, 420.

Insectivorous Plants, 425.-Reumont's Lorenzo de' Medici il Magnifico,

437.- Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics, 446. - Hertslet's Map of Europe

by Treaty, 452.- Minor Poets, 454. - Watkiss Lloyd's Age of Pericles,

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465.

403

NOTICE.

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no exception.